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Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:09:30 -0400
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>.She
>is insisting we put that the baby needs to be tummy to tummy with mom while
>nursing.  I prefer saying "tummy to chest"

I asked a bunch of mothers once when this was bothering me... and
don't remember what they said.  I tried using the word "midriff," but
a lot of people don't know where that is.  I tell brand new moms their
stomach comes with a shelf to put the baby on.   Chris Mulford talks
about *pasting* the baby to the mother, and I like that image.  Chris,
where exactly do you paste him?  I think it's the Australians that
talk about the baby wrapping around the mom in a comma.  Some have
said the baby's chest and navel and knees all need to be against the
mom.  But the exact part of the mom's anatomy?  Maybe that's why we
need pictures...  Kittie Frantz found that telling moms to grab a
baby's ankles made them grab the feet, so she tells them to grab their
legs and they grab the ankles - or maybe it's the other way around.
Interesting how we interpret.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY, who remembers being mystified
by what a woman's lap was.  It appeared only when she was sitting
down;  otherwise it was just a skirt.  What a moment of enlightenment
to realize it was legs!

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